| BOTTLE | Drink in best hotel prepared for game (4,3,6) |
| SPINTHE | Drink in best hotel prepared for game (4,3,6) |
| TIGHTENONESBELT | Gent in best hotel resolved to live more frugally (7,4,4) |
| LIGHTFINGERED | Trifle with edging hotel prepared like dip |
| WOODPIGEON | Wife loves doing PE, prepared for game (4,6) |
| METHODOLOGY | Good hotel prepared to fit in writer's way of working (11) |
| PHEASANT | Heats pan prepared for game bird (8) |
| ATHLETICS | Cheat list prepared for games (9) |
| ESOTERICA | Best hotel price had uncovered secrets (9) |
| ESOTERIC | Secret totally exposed: best hotel price (8) |
| DRESSEDTOKILL | Likes toddlers turned out in best gear |
| FALLINTOPLACE | Begin to make sense of reduction in best fabric |
| BRONTESISTERS | Emily, Charlotte and Anne worked in best resorts (6,7) |
| BELLESLETTRES | Occurrence at Wimbledon featured in best-seller, unusually stylish writing (6,7) |
| CORPSDEBALLET | Troupe putting daughter in best role, clap wildly |
| SPANISHOMELETTE | It seems hotel's prepared to include roast dish from Europe (7,8) |
| LOSEHEART | Are hotels prepared to be beaten? |
| FIVESTAR | Like the best hotels and Lyft ratings |
| NOBHILL | Where San Francisco's best hotels are |
| ACOUPLE | "We're ... of swells; We stay at the best hotels," sang Judy Garland and Fred Astaire (1,6) |
